Teach or review the correct use of sources and citations when assigning work.

Structure conditions during testing to alleviate the possibility of cheating.

Specify the types of collaboration that are discouraged and those that are encouraged.

Students have the responsibility to:

Avoid situations that might contribute to cheating or plagiarizing.

Avoid unauthorized assistance.

Use sources in the prescribed manner.

Document borrowed materials by citing sources.

Avoid plagiarism by:

using quotation marks for statements taken from others.

acknowledging information and ideas borrowed from any source.

consulting faculty members about a questionable situation.

Avoid “cutting” and “pasting” from computer text without proper attribution.

Students who violate “the spirit or the letter of the law” as regards cheating and plagiarizing must accept responsibility for their actions and the accompanying consequences. Consequences may include:

A parent/guardian-student-administrator conference.

Retaking a test.

A lowering of the grade or receiving an F for the assignment.

An alternative assignment or recompletion of the original assignment.

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